What would it mean to your maintenance organization if you could predict system failures or quality issues before they happen?
Often it’s far too late once a vehicle system fault occurs — vehicle health may have already been compromised. Unnecessary damage to a variety of vehicle components is likely to have occurred with no irreversible remedy other than to take the vehicle out of service and replace what’s broken. This sets off a chain of reactionary events which lead to unscheduled maintenance, and ultimately higher cost of repair for out-of-service vehicles due to unplanned downtime. Looking beyond the cost of the repair by itself, fleet operations managers must also consider the collateral costs associated with:
- Towing Costs
- Replacement vehicle
- Lost or perishable inventory
- Missed deadlines
- Increased fuel Consumption
- CSA Scores
- Guaranteed On-Time Delivery Penalties
- Customer dissatisfaction
- Potential lawsuits from unsafe vehicles
- $1000 a day or more in lost revenue for trucks plus possible fines
Introducing Optimum VRx®
“It’s like getting a Maintenance Prescription from your Doctor!”
Long before a vehicle fault system is activated, the Optimum VRx® Predictive Maintenance solution identifies and alerts maintenance management to emerging issues which will ultimately lead to vehicle component failure before it results in unscheduled downtime for out-of-service repair.
Using data transmitted from your telematics device, the Optimum VRx® predictive engine analyzes over 8000 proprietary key performance Indicators (KPIs) which help detect unforeseen issues, diagnose the cause, predict relative time to failure, and prescribe a detailed fix up to four weeks in advance. This valuable insight provides maintenance managers the ability to proactively monitor the ongoing health of all fleet assets, intervene before the asset goes down, and prioritize optimized use of resources accordingly.
Weekly Optimum VRx® Reports (maintenance prescriptions) are distributed to all key maintenance personnel detailing fault severity for all major vehicle components including Engine, Exhaust, Electrical, Brakes, Coolant, and Fuel. In the near future,
this will include impact from weather.
Your weekly Optimum VRx® Reports can be viewed online, by email, or other web services. Optimum VRx® is for OBD-1 vehicles such as trucks, buses, motorcoaches, and other heavy-duty vehicles.
DETECT & DIAGNOSE
Detects issues before they become big problems, and long before they start to affect other systems.
PREDICT
Uses Predictive Analytics on historic fault code data to understand future vehicle health.
PRESCRIBE
Provides a single, weekly report to maintenance managers that provides actionable information.
SEVERITY
Reports prioritize the issues by severity so managers can make informed decisions on scheduling.
OVERVIEW
6
Major Systems Analyzed
Over
8000
Key Performance Indicators
Save up to
25
% on
Maintenance Costs
Features and Benefits
HOW IT WORKS
- Vehicles such as trucks and buses transmit their operational data to the cloud via their telematics service provider (TSP).
- The Optimum VRx® platform feeds diagnostic data into its Enginetics™ analytics engine, where it studies and evaluates it across six (6) different systems:
- engine
- coolant
- charging
- exhaust
- brakes
- fuel
- An Optimum VRx® Report is generated that includes information on issues it found: system(s) involved, description of problem, prescriptive fix, current condition related to the problem, and severity.
- The Optimum VRx® Report is used by the Service Manager to make decisions and schedule the maintenance the vehicle needs.
- Provides a complete vehicle Health Report
- Avoids costly disruptions in operations from unscheduled downtime
- Helps proactively manage maintenance and improve operational efficiency
- Detects unforeseen issues weeks in advance
- Diagnoses the cause, Predicts time to system failure and quality issues
- Prescribes a detailed fix based upon severity of the issue: from Low, Medium, to High
- Schedule what needs to be scheduled
- Prioritizes what needs to be fixed before it breaks
- Reduces Diagnostics time dramatically
- Provides a complete Vehicle Health assessment across all major vehicle systems - not just engine!
- Health reports include Engine, Brakes, Coolant, Fuel, Electrical, & Exhaust
- Improves Fuel Economy and Vehicle Safety
- Ask about how the weather can affect fleet maintenance performance
What Makes Optimum VRx® Unique?
There are many data analytics companies today talking about predictive maintenance. But for the most part, do they really have a demonstrable solution they can offer out of the box, or does it require a lengthy contract for data mining and consulting services to get a solution you need today?
How many data analytics companies know your business application to the extent of having trained diesel diagnostic technicians on staff?
First and foremost, Optimum VRx® is truly predictive, unlike OEM Engine products which only push notifications once the fault light comes on. This is far too late as damage may have already occurred. OEM solutions do not have much of an impact on reducing out of service vehicles and downtime. Optimum VRx® predicts time to system failure and quality issues based upon severity up to four weeks in advance before a fault issue occurs.
Designed by Diesel Technicians for Diesel Technicians
With OPTIMUM, our proprietary data mining intelligence is an already embedded feature within the core of our data analytics engine, and fundamentally unique to Optimum VRx® is that this core intelligence was created by professional diesel diagnostic technicians.
Why is this important? Predictive analytics must start somewhere. So why not at the core of the issue - the vehicle and the technician. It is as much about the application expertise (the actual turning of a wrench) as it is about the data science behind the predictive analytics.
Machine learning is the platform upon which predictive maintenance trains itself to become more Artificially Intelligent. Predictive maintenance systems therefore, are limited by what intelligence begins this process. Optimum VRx® trending algorithms already carry an inherent DNA of more than 8,000 proprietary indicators which we refer to as our Enginetics™ database.
